Rotary Hears Of Recreation Program in New Castle
New Castle Rotary Club heard Art Alexander, city recreation director, describe the scope of the local program using motion pictures. He showed action shots from thirteen playgrounds including the West Side wading pool, two city pools on Neshannock Creek and Big Run, and a season end play day with ice cream and awards. The Recreation Board includes five members with two from city council Mayor John F Haven and Joe D Alexander and two from the school board Leslie Brindle Roy Shira, and Don Thompson. In 1944 there were 12 playgrounds in use and attendance rose over the year.
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New Castle
West Side
Neshannock Créek
Big Run
John F. Haven
Joe D. Alexander
Leslie Brindle
Roy
Attendance rise mirrors city playgrounds and pools use
The record shows 47 783 in an earlier year rising to 83 887 in 1946 and this year with 13 playgrounds and two pools the attendance reaches 19 458 indicating a likely annual total near 100 000.
Experts Band To Urge Arming of Western Hemisphere
Washington June 24. Top civilian and military officials urged Congress to sanction arming the Western Hemisphere to deter another war. Secretary of State Marshall led the delegation before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, backing a Truman request for military cooperation of the American States. The measure would authorize supplying armaments to American nations including Canada.
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Washington
INS
Congress
Army
Navy
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Rep. Eaton
N. J
Sen. Vandenberg
Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Marshall
Canada
United States
Roadside Rest Opens in Clearfield County
A Pennsylvania highway department project opens a four acre roadside rest along the Lakes-to-Sea highway in Clearfield County. The plan aims for every county to have at least one rest, patterned after Ohio facilities from nearly a decade ago. Test flights of a new transport plane use over a mile of film to record instrument readings.
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Pennsylvania Highway Department
Clearfield County
Ohio
Dr C W Cochran to be Installed as Presbyterian Pastor
Dr C W Cochran will be installed this week as pastor of Princeton Memorial and Mt Hermon Presbyterian churches. Services run June 25 and 26 with sermons by Rev Joseph E Pringle and Dr John Orr and charges by Rev A B Weisz Rev Edgar R Tate Rev W F Byers and Rev C E Lamale. A preparatory service will be held June 27 at Mt Hermon church.
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C. W. Cochran
Princeton Memorial
Mt. Hermon Presbyterian
Joseph E. Pringle
Bell Memorial Presbyterian Church
Ellwood City
Princeton
Robert F. Galbreath
First Presbyterian Church
This City
A. B. Weisz
Volant
Rich Hill Presbyterian
Stalin Favors Parley Over Marshall Plan Talks
Berlin dispatch says Soviet Premier Stalin tipped the scale for engaging Britain and France on the Marshall plan after Kremlin debate. Foreign Minister Molotov and Vice Foreign Minister Vishinsky joined in the decision amid cautious expectations for the talks.
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London
INS
Berlin
Stalin
Britain
France
Reuter
Kremlin
Molotov
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Magnetometer May Help Oil Research
Pittsburgh June 24 The magnetometer nicknamed Rosie may become a tool for oil search. Used by WWII airmen to detect subs and now by geophysicists to map earth make up from the air. Adm Byrd used several in polar surveys and oil companies deploy them in South America and rugged North American regions.
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Pittsburgh
Rosie
Adm
Byrd
Antarctic
South Polar
South America
United States
Canada
Freeborne Home After Long Tour
Norman E. Freeborne of New Castle, stage technician, returns home after serving as chief electrician for Holiday on Ice. The show toured the southern and southwestern U S states, spent six weeks in Mexico, and staged a 21 day run in Mexico City. Crowds of 15,000 plus attended nightly performances, with locals impressed by skating on artificial ice. Freeborne plans future steps, with Holiday on Ice resuming road dates in mid July.
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Norman E. Freeborne
New Castle
Mexico
Mexico City
Monterey
Freeborne
Increase Noted On Relief Rolls in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports a roughly 14 400 rise in state relief rolls from January to mid June. For the week ended June 14 there were 301 620 dependents, down 66 from the prior week. Secretary Robbins notes 59 percent of 11 633 May applications were approved and cites long aid periods for the aged handicapped and children.
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Harrisburg
DPA
Frank A. Robbins
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Rotary
City Recreation Board
Art Alexander
Eckerd’s Drug
New Castle Drug and drug_stores
Waldman
F. Washington St
New York State
Washington St
New Castle, Pa
Lebo’s
E. Long
Are
Silverman’s
East Washington St
Clearfield
Nature
Carter
B& J
Calis Market
South Mill St
NorEast Park
Castile, Pa
Total
Ridemaenth
Cee
Dollar Savings
Association of Law
East Street
Lucky Strike
Auc
Pie K
B. R. Leech
Glasgow
Kentucky
Brice Leech
Tobacco
The
Department of Public Assistance
Robbins
Koolvent Metal Awning Co
KoolVent
Evolvent Metal
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